After avoiding sysadmin issues for four years, I upgraded from Kubuntu
18.04 to Kubuntu 22.04. At first, a big disappointment as there was no
jpilot in the repositories. It doesn't help that I have a heavily
customized version of Jpilot with vi-bindings that I need to build from
scratch after applying a series of patches. However, in the end it wasn't
terrifically difficult and I thought I'd relay the steps.
1: Get build dependencies
"apt-get build-dep jpilot" no longer works so I needed to get dependencies
by hand.
Despite being for version 20.04, the .deb packages for libpisock-dev,
libpisock-9, libpysync1 available at https://www.jpilot.org/ubuntu-20.04/
all installed fine.
The full list of dependencies at https://www.jpilot.org/requirements/ was
used to install the remaining required packages ("apt-get install XXX").
2: Get source code
The source code is available at https://github.com/juddmon/jpilot.
I happen to use Mercurial, rather than Git, but the version control tools
can mostly interoperate these days. No instructions given for how to clone
a repository since that is specific to your VCS.
Because I'm using some patches keyed to old versions of the code base I
found it easiest to update to the tag "release-1.8.x".
Next, I applied my series of custom patches with patch. I found it useful
to change the AC_INIT line in configure.in to bump the version number to my
own custom 1.8.3 value.
autogen.sh
./configure --OPTIONS
make
I found it easiest to modify jpilot.spec with a text editor to customize it
for my machine.
"sudo checkinstall --spec jpilot.spec make install" produces a .deb package
ready for install.
--Rik